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Karl MessnerKarl Messner is a Christian guitarist from Pittsburgh PA. He is best known for co-founding Christian parody band, ApologetiX in 1992. He played about 1,000 concerts with ApologetiX and left the band in September of 2007. Since then he's been pursuing other music and non-music interests. In Early 2009, rumblings of a solo project began to circulate.ApologetiX is sort of the "Weird Al" Yankovic of Christian music. ApologetiX Lyrics aim to teach people about what the Christian Faith is all about. Karl's job was to bring ApologetiX Lyrics to life with music, video and live concerts. ApologetiX songs even made it to Weird Al, who told Karl that he thought it was "fantastic work." Karl worked with Weird Al Yankovic when they were in Pittsburgh and borrowed their drummer, Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz to play drums on the band's Biblical Graffii album. ApologetiX MusicFor 15 years, Karl worked with ApologetiX, an amazingly talented braintrust of gifted musicians. Karl produced and performed on 14 albums—each CD chock full of brilliant and sometimes funny parodies of pop, rock and country music from the 50's to today. ApologetiX music continues to be heard around the world, ApologetiX mp3 music is available on itunes and you can even hear Karl singing most of the backing vocals as well as a few forays to the lead vocal.Karl and the signature "Drumstick Solo" to CheapBirds (a parody of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd) From the DVD, Samson Comes Alive (2005). An even better performance of that can be found here, but the audio stinketh. But it's probably the only time we achieved drumstick catch AND successful drumstick BOUNCE and CATCH (at 2:02). (pardon the OMG at 2:30) ApologetiX LyricsKarl wrote very few ApologetiX lyrics. As in one or two songs. Karl left the band to focus on the family and pursue other interests" the press release said. He hung his guitar up on the wall in his studio and didn't touch it for over a year. "I'm not picking that up until I MISS it." After playing it every day since before he was a teenager, and hours and hours and hours in the studio every year, he wondered if he'd ever feel like picking it back up. But about a year later he did, and has started a whole new chapter of music in his life. Still a student of the instrument, he's finding new sounds, and songs in that six string every day.Post ApologetiX Music:Karl Messner's New CDKarl will be going into the studio this summer to record his first solo studio album, "Liberty." "Liberty" will be released late 2009 or early 2010. Check back here, or Karl Messner's Official MySpace for Studio Snippets once recording gets underway.Connect with Karl MessnerKarl Messner on TwitterKarl Messner on Facebook Karl Messner on YouTube Karl Messner on Myspace Karl Messner on LinkedIn HostingEveryone asks me where I host my site. After hours of research and for a ton of reasons, I host KarlMessnerMusic.com with The Best Hosting Site on the Net.Help get the project off the groundWe really appreciate any help you can bring! |